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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5183323" data-attributes="member: 4937">Usually a DM learns this particular lesson somewhat later in his career.The basic problem is that you did not communicate with the players enough before starting the game.&nbsp; You also gave the players too much freedom when creating their characters.&nbsp; The failure of the campaign has two primary sources:1) The party had mixed motivations.&nbsp; Without overall guidelines different players created characters with incompatible motivations.2) You apparantly envisioned a heroic adventure path style campaign, since you were trying to salvage a story line after the death of an NPC.&nbsp; Most of your players apparantly envisioned a villianous sandbox style campaign, and you were ill-prepared both in terms of experience and I would guess by inclination to provide such to them.If you can resolve those two conflicts, you can salvage the campaign or at least do a do-over with a better defined social contract.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 5183323, member: 4937"] Usually a DM learns this particular lesson somewhat later in his career. The basic problem is that you did not communicate with the players enough before starting the game. You also gave the players too much freedom when creating their characters. The failure of the campaign has two primary sources: 1) The party had mixed motivations. Without overall guidelines different players created characters with incompatible motivations. 2) You apparantly envisioned a heroic adventure path style campaign, since you were trying to salvage a story line after the death of an NPC. Most of your players apparantly envisioned a villianous sandbox style campaign, and you were ill-prepared both in terms of experience and I would guess by inclination to provide such to them. If you can resolve those two conflicts, you can salvage the campaign or at least do a do-over with a better defined social contract. [/QUOTE]

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